Grieve thou not over those that have busied themselves with
the things of this world, and have forgotten the remembrance of God, the Most
Great. By Him Who is the Eternal Truth! The day is approaching when the
wrathful anger of the Almighty will have taken hold of them. He, verily, is the
Omnipotent, the All-Subduing, the Most Powerful. He shall cleanse the earth
from the defilement of their corruption, and shall give it for an heritage unto
such of His servants as are nigh unto Him.
Say: O people! Dust fill your mouths, and ashes blind your
eyes, for having bartered away the Divine Joseph for the most paltry of prices.
Oh, the misery that resteth upon you, ye that are far astray! Have ye imagined
in your hearts that ye possess the power to outstrip Him and His Cause? Far
from it! To this He, Himself, the All-Powerful, the Most Exalted, the Most
Great, doth testify.
Soon shall the blasts of His chastisement beat upon you, and
the dust of hell enshroud you. Those men who, having amassed the vanities and
ornaments of the earth, have turned away disdainfully from God—these have lost
both this world and the world to come. Ere long, will God, with the Hand of
Power, strip them of their possessions, and divest them of the robe of His
bounty. To this they themselves shall soon witness. Thou, too, shalt testify.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
